[Leica] I came over to the dark side

[Christopher Crawford]

I have used the subscription service a long time. I haven’t tried the AI object removal stuff yet, but one AI tool in the current version of Lightroom that I use all the time is the AI Noise Reduction. It is absolutely incredible. I can shoot at ISO-3200 with my Olympus m4/3 gear, which has a lot of noise at 3200, and the AI Noise tool removes 100% of the noise with NO reduction in resolution. The regular noise reduction slider, which is part of the sharpening controls, smears out image detail if you set it high enough to totally remove ISO-3200 noise from m4/3 images. Even on images shot at the base ISO-200 setting, the AI Noise Reducer gives more fine resolution than I get with the standard NR control.

 

 

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From: LUG <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org> on behalf of "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
Reply-To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
To: Leica Reflex <LeicaReflex at freelists.org>, "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
Cc: Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Leica] I came over to the dark side

 

Yep.  I actually purchased the Adobe Photographer subscription a while 

back before the prices went up.  I have not done much with it yet 

preferring to stick with Lightroom 6 and CS6, but I  have gotten curious 

about the AI abilities in removing objects.  I have to say I am mostly 

impressed.  Here are a few examples from a recent trip to Leavenworth.  

They are doing a lot of construction along the main drag so there was 

lots of equipment interfering with the usual nice views, so I took some 

shots anyway specifically to try the AI removal tools in LR and 

Photoshop. Here are the results.

 

Original Image with some offending outhouses: Leavenworth WA-1004237 

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237.jpg.html>

 

A little AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004237-Edit 

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237-Edit.jpg.html>

 

Another original image with trucks and structures: Leavenworth 

WA-1004234 

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234.jpg.html>

 

And AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004234-Edit 

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234-Edit.jpg.html>

 

 

If you were to blow them up and look carefully I am sure you could see 

they were worked on.  For one thing, the AI synthisized image is much 

lower resolution than the Q3 original image.  I think it is 1 or 2 K 

resolution.  And of course there would be a few artifacts that if I was 

really industrious I would have to work on.  But by and large they took 

a totally unacceptable image and made it into a pretty good mediocre 

image in my unskilled hands.  Maybe you are an old hand at this so these 

seem pretty amateurish to you.  Maybe I will work on it or maybe I will 

just take more time to line shots up that do not require the use of this 

tool.  Be a real photographer rather than a technician.

 

Comments welcome.

 

Aram

 

 

 

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Aram Langhans

(Semi) Retired Science Teacher

& Unemployed photographer

 

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